ENNIO MORRICONE R.I.P.
MORRICONE LEAVES US WITH SCORES OF SCORES OF FILM SCORES AND MORE by David James Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, who died on July 6, was one of the few in the genre whose music went beyond being merely supportive. Only perhaps Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin produced such distinctive outputs and they lacked the adventurousness of Morricone, who combined a compelling lyricism with a panoply of different textures. Mostly he used orchestral variations, but he also found ways of exploring the porous barrier between music as organised sound and life as random sounds. In the last scene of The…